Dr Verity Bennett

Articles

• Wilkins, D. and Bennett, V. 2025. Making accurate judgements in child welfare: comparing ChatGPT with qualified social workers. Child & Family Social Work (10.1111/cfs.13304)
• Westlake, D. et al. 2025. A Cluster randomised controlled trial of social workers in schools in England. Research on Social Work Practice (10.1177/10497315251338227)
• Wilkins, D., Thompson, S., Jones, R., Bezeczky, Z. and Bennett, V. 2025. Implementing Schwartz Rounds in children’s social care: enablers and barriers. Journal of Social Work 25(1), pp. 61-82. (10.1177/14680173241278249)
• Bennett, V. et al. 2024. Student perspectives on school-based social workers: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Children's Services 19(3), pp. 189-221. (10.1108/JCS-04-2023-0021)
• Bennett, V., Spasic, I., Filimonov, M., Muralidaran, V., Kemp, A. M., Allen, S. and Watkins, W. J. 2024. Assessing the feasibility of using parents' social media conversations to inform burn first aid interventions: mixed methods study. JMIR Formative Research 8, article number: e48695. (10.2196/48695)
• Cowley, L. E., Bennett, C. V., Quinn-Scoggins, H. D., Nuttall, D., Wilkins, D. and Kemp, A. M. 2024. Factors influencing clinicians', health visitors' and social workers' professional judgements, decision‐making and multidisciplinary collaboration when safeguarding children with burn injuries: a qualitative study. Child Abuse Review 33(1), article number: e2862. (10.1002/car.2862)
• Bennett, C. V., Hollen, L., Wilkins, D., Emond, A. and Kemp, A. 2023. The impact of a clinical prediction tool (BuRN-Tool) for child maltreatment on social care outcomes for children attending hospital with a burn or scald injury. Burns 49(4), pp. 941-950. (10.1016/j.burns.2022.07.014)
• Westlake, D. et al. 2022. The SWIS trial: protocol of a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of school based social work. PLoS ONE 17(6), article number: e0265354. (10.1371/journal.pone.0265354)
• Cowley, L. E., Bennett, C., Brown, I., Emond, A. and Kemp, A. M. 2021. A mixed-methods process evaluation of SafeTea: A multimedia campaign to prevent hot drink scalds in young children and promote burn first aid. Injury Prevention 27, pp. 419-427. (10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043909)
• Hollen, L., Bennett, V., Nuttall, D., Emond, A. M. and Kemp, A. 2021. Evaluation of the efficacy and impact of a clinical prediction tool to identify maltreatment associated with children’s burns. BMJ Paediatrics Open 5(1), article number: e000796. (10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000796)
• Carter, B., Bennett, C. V., Jones, H., Bethel, J., Perra, O., Wang, T. and Kemp, A. 2021. Healthcare use by children and young adults with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 63(1), pp. 75-80. (10.1111/dmcn.14536)
• Glenn, K. et al. 2021. Head computed tomography in suspected physical abuse: time to rethink?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 106(5), pp. 461-466. (10.1136/archdischild-2020-320192)
• Nuttall, D. et al. 2020. Would shared health visitor and emergency department records improve recognition of child maltreatment within the emergency department? A prospective multicentre study. Child Abuse Review 29(6), pp. 518-528. (10.1002/car.2641)
• Hepburn, K. et al. 2020. Burns and Scalds Assessment Template: standardising clinical assessment of childhood burns in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal 37(6), pp. 351-354. (10.1136/emermed-2019-208595)
• Javaid, A. A., Bennett, V., Hollén, L. and Kemp, A. M. 2020. Contact burns: the influence of agents and mechanisms of injury on anatomical burn locations in children <5 years old and associations with child protection referrals. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105, pp. 580-586. (10.1136/archdischild-2019-318140)
• McNulty, C. A. M. et al. 2020. Peer-education as a tool to educate on antibiotics, resistance and use in 16-18-year-olds: a feasibility study. Antibiotics 9(4), article number: 146. (10.3390/antibiotics9040146)
• McNulty, C. A. M., Brown, C. L., Syeda, R. B., Bennett, C. V., Schofield, B., Allison, D. G. and Francis, N. 2020. Teacher and student views on the feasibility of peer to peer education as a model to educate 16-18 year olds on prudent antibiotic use-a qualitative study. Antibiotics 9(4), article number: 194. (10.3390/antibiotics9040194)
• Bennett, C. V., Hollen, L., Quinn-Scoggins, H. D., Emond, A. and Kemp, A. M. 2020. Feasibility of Safe-Tea: A parent targeted intervention to prevent hot drink scalds in pre-school children. Injury Prevention 26(1), pp. 31-41. (10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042921)
• Carter, B., Bennett, C. V., Bethel, J., Jones, H., Wang, T. and Kemp, A. 2019. Identifying cerebral palsy from routinely-collected data in England and Wales. Clinical Epidemiology 2019(11), pp. 457-468. (10.2147/CLEP.S200748)
• Bennett, C. V. et al. 2019. First aid for children's burns in the US and UK: An urgent call to establish and promote international standards. Burns 45(2), pp. 440-449. (10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.003)
• Bennett, C. V., Upchurch, P., Goin, F. J. and Goswami, A. 2018. Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality. Paleobiology 44(2), pp. 171-198. (10.1017/pab.2017.34)

Monographs

• Sanders, M., Westlake, D., Ellingwood, J., Bancroft, K. and Bennett, V. 2024. Pilot trial protocol: Police in corridors. Youth Endowment Fund Charitable Fund. Available at: https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/who-we-fund/national-police-chiefs-council-2/
• Maxwell, N., Ablitt, J., Bennett, C., Bezeczky, Z. and Nightingale, M. 2023. Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Service Evaluation. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: CASCADE. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/SOCEIS-Evaluation-2023.pdf
• Adara, L. et al. 2023. The Social Workers in Schools Trial: An evaluation of school based social work.. Project Report. Early Intervention Foundation.
• Wilkins, D., Thompson, S., Bezeczky, Z., Daher, S., Bennett, V., Jones, R. and Clayton, V. 2021. A randomised controlled trial of Schwartz Rounds: An intervention to reduce psychological distress for staff in children's services. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/a-randomised-controlled-trial-of-schwartz-rounds/

Websites

• Schroeder, E. et al. 2024. The cost-effectiveness and cost-consequences of a school-based social worker intervention: a within-trial economic evaluation. [Online]. SSRN. (10.2139/ssrn.4776734)

• Bennett, C. V., Hollen, L., Quinn-Scoggins, H. D., Emond, A. and Kemp, A. M. 2020. Feasibility of Safe-Tea: A parent targeted intervention to prevent hot drink scalds in pre-school children. Injury Prevention 26(1), pp. 31-41. (10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042921)
• Carter, B., Bennett, C. V., Bethel, J., Jones, H., Wang, T. and Kemp, A. 2019. Identifying cerebral palsy from routinely-collected data in England and Wales. Clinical Epidemiology 2019(11), pp. 457-468. (10.2147/CLEP.S200748)
• Bennett, C. V. et al. 2019. First aid for children's burns in the US and UK: An urgent call to establish and promote international standards. Burns 45(2), pp. 440-449. (10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.003)
• Bennett, C. V., Upchurch, P., Goin, F. J. and Goswami, A. 2018. Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality. Paleobiology 44(2), pp. 171-198. (10.1017/pab.2017.34)